Biological invasions
Subtitle: economic and environmental costs of alien plant, animal, and microbe species
By: edited by David Pimentel.
Contributors: Pimentel, David, 1925-
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Biological invasions -- Economic aspects; Biological invasions -- Environmental aspects
Other titles: Economic and environmental costs of alien plant, animal, and microbe species
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Impacts of alien plants in Australia -- Richard H. Groves; title: Non-indigenous vertebrates in Australia -- Mary Bomford and Quentin Hart; title: Environmental and economic costs of invertebrate invasions in Australia -- Deon Canyon ... [et al.]; title: Alien plant pathogens in Brazil -- Murillo Lobo Junior; title: Alien plants in the British Isles -- Mark Williamson; title: Economic and environmental costs of alien vertebrate species in Britain -- Piran C.L. White and Stephen Harris; title: Non-native invasive species of arthropods and plant pathogens in the British Isles -- David Pimentel; title: Alien plant pathogens in India -- Rama S. Singh and Jaspal Kaur; title: Economic impacts of weeds in New Zealand -- Peter A. Williams and Susan Timmins; title: Ecological and economic costs of alien vertebrates in New Zealand -- M.N. Clout; title: Alien invertebrates in New Zealand -- Nigel D. Barlow and S.L. Goldson; title: Impact of exotic insects in New Zealand -- Angus Cook, Philip Weinstein and Alistair Woodward; title: Economic consequences of alien plant invasions: examples of impacts and approaches to sustainable management in South Africa -- B.W. van Wilgen ... [et al.]; title: Alien invertebrate animals in South Africa -- Lori Lach ... [et al.]; title: Environmental and economic costs associated with non-indigenous species in the United States -- David Pimental ... [et al.]; title: Economic and environmental threats of alien plant, animal and microbe invasions -- David Pimental ... [et al.]; title: World exotic diseases-- Yoonji Kim.